Ashling O’Connor, The Times’s Sports News Correspondent, explains why this could be for Fifa what Salt Lake City was to the Olympics

Are the World Cup bribe allegations a surprise?
No. Corruption is believed by some to be deep-rooted within Fifa as an
organisation, so the news that a World Cup official has been caught on film
allegedly agreeing to sell his vote is not a shock. There are plenty of
pretenders to the Fifa presidency who have run on an anti-corruption ticket,
but they have not been successful.

What happens to the bidding process from here? They should suspend it. If Sepp Blatter, the Fifa president, doesn’t exert
leadership and either suspend the members at the centre of the allegations
and/or